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Franz Waxman
German film composer
1906 – 1967aged 60
A German-born film composer whose scores — Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, Sunset Boulevard, Rear Window — helped define what film music could sound like, and who won the Academy Award in consecutive years for Sunset Boulevard and A Place in the Sun. He also composed The Song of Terezín, an orchestral and choral work set to poems written by children imprisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and founded the Los Angeles Music Festival in 1947.